A Salty Piece of Land.A Salty Piece of Land A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by bestselling author Jimmy Buffett about American westerner Tully Mars, who goes to work repairing an island lighthouse. Buffett first introduced the character Tully Mars in his earlier work, Tales from Margaritaville. Jimmy Buffett Little, Brown ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m : 0316908452 $27.95 480 pages Recommendation: *** Cleopatra v. Tully I'm an avid reader AND a parrothead, so I had great expectations for A SALTY PIECE OF LAND. Bubba bub·ba n. Slang 1. Chiefly Southern U.S. Brother. 2. A white working-class man of the southern United States, stereotypically regarded as uneducated and gregarious with his peers. does a good job with the story's set up and he ties it up pretty well at the end, but the middle seemed to wander all over the place. I was much more interested in the crusty crust·y adj. crust·i·er, crust·i·est 1. Having, resembling, or being a crust. 2. Rough or surly in manner. See Synonyms at gruff. Cleopatra's story than Tully's. I wish Bubba had built the story around her, with Tully as an ancillary character. With that said, I did enjoy the sailing stories and I have an itch to make it to Belize before it becomes too commercialized. I look forward to more tale tales, but maybe they would be better served in short story form, not held together by anything other than the binding on the book's spine. I also think Cleopatra's life and adventures deserve another look. |
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